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What is “isolation” in Swift? We define the term based on Swift’s open “evolution” process and flesh out an example from the proposal to get an understanding of its purpose, and see how legacy tools can lead to dangerous situations at runtime.
We show off some superpowers unlocked by embracing isolation, noncopyable, and nonescapable types by showing how they can be used to add incredible safety and performance to a legacy C API, and we will bring everything together to see how these tools make testing an app that uses Composable Architecture 2.0 and SQLiteData like magic.
It’s time to go beyond the basics with a deep exploration of isolation, noncopyable, and nonescapable types. But before we get into all the nitty gritty details we will demonstrate why understanding these topics matters, starting with a preview of isolation in Composable Architecture 2.0.
We dissect some of the most important and interesting topics in Swift programming frequently, and deliver them straight to your inbox.
We cover both abstract ideas and practical concepts you can start using in your code base immediately.
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SwiftUI may be all the rage these days, but that doesn’t mean you won’t occassionally need to dip your toes into the UIKit waters. Whether it be to access some functionality not yet available in SwiftUI, or for performance reasons (UICollectionView 😍), you will eventually find yourself subclassing UIViewController, and then the question becomes: what is the most modern way to do this?
Swift 5.9 brings a powerful new feature to the language: macros. They allow you to implement new functionality into the language as if it was built directly in the language itself. However, they can be tricky to get right, and as such one needs to write an extensive test suite to make sure you have covered all of the subtle and nuanced edge cases that are possible.
What are the best, modern practices for persisting your application’s state? We explore the topic by rebuilding Apple’s Reminders app from scratch using SQLite, the most widely deployed database in all software. We will dive into many of SQL’s most powerful features, such as foreign keys, triggers, common table expressions, and more.
If you have ever created a binding using the get:set: initializer, you may want to reconsider. Doing so can hurt SwiftUI’s ability to animate your view. Luckily there is a better way. You can leverage @dynamicMemberLookup and subscripts to derive new bindings in a way that allows SwiftUI to propertly track where the binding came from.
SwiftData is not capable of filtering and sorting by raw representable enum properties in models. Predicates and sort descriptors will compile just fine when referencing enum properties, but it will crash at runtime.
SwiftData is not capable of sorting by boolean properties in models. And if you try to trick SwiftData to allow it, you will encounter runtime crashes.
Every episode has been amazing on Pointfree, yet somehow, you've managed to make these Parser combinator episodes even better!!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Really love this episode - thanks @mbrandonw + @stephencelis! Understanding Swift types in terms of algebraic data types is such an elegant way of seeing the # of possible values your Swift types will represent 🤯 #Simplifyallthethings #GoodbyeComplexity
I really love the dynamics of @pointfreeco. The dance of “this is super nice because…” “yes, BUT….”. they clearly show what’s good, what’s not so good and keep continuously improving.
I listened to the first two episodes of @pointfreeco this weekend and it was the best presentation of FP fundamentals I've seen. Very thoughtful layout and progression of the material and motivations behind each introduced concept. Looking forward to watching the rest!
Three recent @pointfreeco episodes were so interesting I stayed in the treadmill 3x as long as usual and watched them all in a row! Walking may be challenging later/tomorrow... 😮
Their content pushes the boundary of my knowledge, and it's fun to watch!
Please stop releasing one amazing video after the other! I'm still at Episode 15! #pointfreemarathon #androiddevhere
Thanks @mbrandonw @stephencelis for the very pedagogical series with @pointfreeco Excited and looking forward to learn from the series
Through videos you constantly introduce ideas and patterns only to later reformulate them into more general ideas. This is awesome and helped me understand a lot of programming concepts. Well done!
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